Legend detector

[demyansk1942]

I bought a legend last year after using the fisher f2, f5, atpro and now the legend,

I works real well in the wet saltwater and on the sand. Every time a 43 pops up it’s a bottle cap. I must have scooped 50-60 caps today. I have a question, the one thing I find difficult is the differentiation of the tones on the machine. I am using the wireless headphones, they are great, my other detectors always had a wider range between junk and coins. The 43 on bottle caps is so close to the penny46, dime 47, and quarter 50 about.

Is there a way to make the ring tones more pronounced? I went to a school field this afternoon and everything sounds the same, sometimes I prefer not to always look at the display but use my ears.

Thanks any suggestions appreciated. I am so much better retrieving coins with my f5 but of course I have way more time with it.

 

[markinmichigan]

How many tones are you using? Set low 40s to a lower volume. or discriminate out 42-43, that's what I have done. No penny has showed up at those numbers. Caps are always squeaky and never a solid good tone unless its flattened and close to the surface. I dig a pile of caps too. In high value areas you have to dig those low 40s. There are plenty of more experienced members that will chime in as I only have 13 months into my Legend.

Mark in Michigan

 

[demyansk1942]

I haven’t messed with any tones I am just using the default settings. I don’t mind digging the caps since it cleans the beach. I’ll have to look at the manual again. Thanks for responding

 

[ScubaSteveXdm]

Bump it up to 60 tones and try that

 

[demyansk1942]

Thanks scuba, I will look at it tomorrow, not sure how to do it but the manual will be easy to follow. I do like the wireless headphones

 

[RobNC]

I like 4 tones and have also experimented with 6. You can go into the settings and do that. You can also set tone breaks and tone volume per break zones. I did this and my Legend absolutely screams on anything 45 and up in 4 tone mode. You can also tweak the pitch of your tones to better suit your ears.
Bottom Line, the Legend is similar to the Equinox 800 in this aspect but to my ears the Equinox has a lot of flute-like tones vs the Legend's more clear tones. I have both so not a knock at one or the other.

 

[TheFrood]

I've played with the default, 6 tones, and 60 tones...
And as I learn more about the capabilities of the detector I keep switching back and forth
between different tones as I play with different settings.

The biggest thing is to learn how to play with the settings on the machine, and what the different
settings do. If I'm not mistaken you can customize specific tones for specific numbers if you want.

 

[RobNC]

I've played with the default, 6 tones, and 60 tones...
And as I learn more about the capabilities of the detector I keep switching back and forth
between different tones as I play with different settings.

The biggest thing is to learn how to play with the settings on the machine, and what the different
settings do. If I'm not mistaken you can customize specific tones for specific numbers if you want.

Yes you can customize the tone pitch and volume on segments of target ID's. It depends on how many tones you are running. For me, 4 tone. So from 1-10 is a lower pitch on mine and lowest volume possible. You keep going after that, setting up your tone pitch and volume. On mine at 45-60 it's the highest pitch of all the tones and highest volume. I wanted those higher numbers to scream in my ear.
I am using all metal mode so when the iron and junk is under the coil I do hear a very muted dull tone. It is still audible but very subdued. That way I can still slightly hear bad things but when it also detects a more conductive object (40-52 for example) I can hear that high pitched high volume tone telling me "hey, something is possibly being masked here".

I've also found that M2 seems to give me the strongest hits. M3 is weak for me so far. M1 is sort of middle ground in my area. Probably this varies according to where someone is detecting. Iron Filter and stability is another odd bird. For now I can just barely hear iron, however the filter is not turned up too much that it is masking good things I want to dig. You can easily go overboard with filtering/discrimination. Of course the junk/garbage I'm seeing will probably be quite different than the junk someone else encounters. I've yet to dig anything good below target ID 24. It's all been foil pieces, can slaw, or other bits and pieces of things. It's a learning experience and every site is different. Have one place that is super iron saturated. Machine gun fire style iron. Managed to find a 22LR bullet (33-34 ID)in the middle of that mess. So I know the Legend can pull things out. Another thing is iron wrap-around. Every metal detector that I've used in the past has that. So some real old rusty or large pieces of iron can also give a solid 60 on the Legend. In my case it was a broken Horse Shoe. I was getting iron buzz but every now and then a high 60 signal which one could believe and HOPE was a good masked silver quarter/half dollar, etc. But since then I've messed around with Iron Filter and Stability and other things to minimize it. You can't totally eliminate that without severely crippling the detector's ability to unmask good stuff.
The Legend is a good machine with a lot of power under the hood. I am quite fascinated by it, and that's why it is here-to learn and study it just like any Mad Scientist would study something.. LOL

 

[Beachhunt1]

I works real well in the wet saltwater and on the sand. Every time a 43 pops up it’s a bottle cap.

Why not turn the bottle cap adjustment up?

 

[Jose159]

I have been using M2 and M3 (in the soggy soil) and tried all the different tones but I keep going back to pitch tones and using the VDI numbers and ferro-check to determine what to dig. If I keep the IF around 4 or 5.. the ferro-check seems to be more accurate and I get very little falsing

 

[Big Boys Hobbies]

I like 4 tones and have also experimented with 6.

I like 4 tones myself on the Nokta Legend! I find that true with almost all machines not just this one. Too many towns gets kind of gets confusing. It also seems a lock a little bit harder when you're using less tones. I can tell more about the target from the audio that way.